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A WEEKEND WITH RABBI DR. WENDY ZIERLER
Rabbi Dr. Wendy Zierler is a rabbi, scholar, and author whose work explores Jewish literature, feminism, and contemporary culture. Originally from Sarnia and raised in Toronto, she is the Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union College in New York. Ordained by Yeshiva Maharat in 2021, she is the author of several acclaimed books, including Going Out with Knots: My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry (2025).
📅 Thursday, June 4 | ⏰ 7:00 PM | 📍Social Hall
Book Talk: Going Out with Knots: My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry
Rabbi Dr. Zierler explores how Hebrew poetry and Israeli culture can offer meaning, comfort, and creative response in times of personal and communal loss.
📅 Shabbat, June 6 | ⏰ 1:00 PM | 📍Sanctuary
And Rachel Stole the Idols: How the First Hebrew Women Writers Took Their Cue from the Biblical Rachel
This talk, based on Zierler’s first book on the emergence of modern Hebrew women’s writing, examines the cryptic biblical episode of Rachel stealing her father’s teraphim from Genesis 31 as a thematic key to understand how the first modern Hebrew woman poets—after centuries of silence—took control of the language of Hebrew literary culture, laying claim to icons of femininity and recasting them for their own purposes.